Archive for October, 2005
Friday, October 28th, 2005
AaronGleeman.com
In his recent post, Aaron Gleeman admits to being a big Michael Vick fan and says that the “growing sentiment that he is the NFL’s most overrated player is ridiculous”. I love Aaron’s writing. I read him daily. However, I don’t have to agree with him on everything.
Anyway, here was [...]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Seattle Mariners : News : Seattle Mariners News
I thought this was kind of interesting. Allen Wirtala is a graduate of MSU (where I graduated). The funny thing is that MSU doesn’t have a baseball team.
“Who is the bullpen catcher, and what is his history? Is he a former or want-to-be player? — Ken E., Puyallup, Wash.
There are two bullpen catchers [...]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Bio: Coach Joe Vavra
This makes me feel a little better about him. He was a very good hitter when in college. Let’s hope it’s an example of those that can do, those that can’t teach.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Twins to name Vavra hitting coach
Who? Does it concern anyone else that our new hitting coach has no major league experience either as a player or manager? And what exactly makes him qualified to be a hitting coach? I’m all for getting Ullger out of that spot but can’t we get someone with some credentials?
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Still alive
I’m still alive (not that anyone reads this to find out this tidbit). I just don’t have a lot of sports related stuff to write about.
The Vikes have started out really poorly but hopefully the win over the Packers is the turning point. Guess we’ll see this weekend.
Looks like the White Sox [...]
